Draft apparatus for cars



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UNITED STATES PATENT DFEICE.

JOHN W. CLOUD, OF ALTOONA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DRAFT APPARATUS FOR CARS.

.JPBCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,084, dated August11, 1885.

Application filed June 24, 1885. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN W. CLOUD, of Altoona, Blair county, in theState of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inDraft Apparatus for Railway- Oars, of which the following is a full andtrue description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to strengthen the draft'appliances ofrailway-cars, and so distribute and transmit the strains that they willcome upon those parts of the car-framing best adapted to sustain themwithout injury.

My invention consists of the devices hereinafter described, and theircombination with the under framing of a car in such a way as to transmitthe shocks of pulling and bufling to the end sill, and through it to theends of the under-frame timbers, reference being now had to thedrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cast view ofthe strap by means of which the strains due to buffing are transmittedto the end sill of the car. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the castingshown in Fig. 1, taken on the line 00 00. Fig. 4 is a longitudinalvertical section of the under framing and draft appliances of a carconstructed according to my invention, and Fig. 5 is a view of thebottom of such a car looking upward.

A is a draft-casting, made of steel or any material having the necessarystrength. This casting is provided with the four parallelabutment-surfaces a, b, c, and (1, Fig.4. The surfaces at and b are solocated as to receive the pulls and pushes transmitted through thedraft-spring B and spring-followers O O, the small portions of whichpass through openings in said surfaces, as shown in Fig. 4. The surface0 transmits all pulling strains directly to the end sill, D, againstwhich it abuts, and the surface d transmits all buffing strains to thecross-bar E, and through the straps G to the end sill, D. The casting Aisheld in place by the cross'bars F and E, Figs. 4 and 5, and lugs cf 9h may also be provided to hold it securely in position. The walls 70 andZ also assist in holding the casting A in its proper position, and theyare of course shaped and proportioned so as to give the casting thenecessary strength.

G G are straps, having lugs m .at one end, against which the cross-bar Eabuts. They are secured firmly to the end sill, D, by bending theirother ends around its face and over its top, so as to receive one ormore throughbolts, H.

K, Fig. 4, represents straps which pass along the top of the frame andassist in tying the end sill and center stringers together;-but thesemay be omitted and the usual throughbolts used alone.

P, R, and S represent the usual draw head and bar, and need not beparticularly described.

The formation of the casting A is such as I Having now described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a draftcasting for railroad-cars,having downwardlyprojecting surfaces or shoulders for receiving thrustsand pulls through a draw-spring placed between such surfaces andshoulders, or surfaces for transmitting such thrusts and pulls to thecar-framing, said casting being adapted to be secured to such framing byclamping, and without any bolts passing through the casting,substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the end sill of a railway-car, of thedraft-casting having shoulders or abutting surfaces a b c d, to receiveand transmit the thrusts of the draw-spring, and straps or ties totransmit the buffing thrusts on the casting to the end sill, all soarranged that all pushing or pulling strains are transinitted directlyto the end sill, substantially as shown and described. 1

3. The combination, with the end sill and under framing of arailway-car, of the draft ICO casting securedtothennder trainingbystraps, straps or ties G, all substantially as and for and without anybolts passing through the I the purpose shown and described. casting,and having shoulders or abutting The combination of the draft-castingIt, surfaces a b c (I, to receive and transmit the having lugs e f g h,and the end sill, D, with 15 thrusts of the draw-spring, and straps orties the er0ss-bars E and F and straps or ties G, to transmit theabutting thrusts to the end all substantially as and for the purposeshown sill, all so arranged that all pushing or pulland described. ingstrains are transmitted directly to the end J N O. \V. CLOUD.

sill, substantially as shown and described. XVitnesses: 10 4-. Thecombination of the draft-casting A FRANCIS T. CHAMBERS,

and the end sill, 1) with the cross-bar E and JOSHUA MATLACK.

